Wanted, a Wifs. .;Oi.i!,rye&amp;lt;>; I understand all that, my,..son I, have Heard much' of that : before. You ' mourn and grieve over the lack of true worhanhood among the girls of your acquaintance. Mere butterflies of fashion, 'you say, who rattle the keys of a piano, dance like fairies, chatter nonsense and society nothings by the hour, but for their ? lives cannot bake a loaf of bread, roast a turkey, do a day's washing-, or make a shirt. -You say you demand the noblest type of useful womanhood in your wife, and you want to know where you can find the wife you want? Well, I will tell you my dear liby.- If that is the sort of woman you want, .marry ' Nora Mulligan, your . laundress's, daughter. She wears cowhide 'shoes, is guiltless of corsets, never had a sick day in all- her Jife, takes in washing, gv>es out house-cleaning and cooks for a family -of seven children, her mother and .thrp« section men, who board with her.' I don't think slie would marry you, because Co...

>Wiy " Baby; miuefaulted. UNCE,, when Mme. Rentz and her female minstrels w;ere performing in San Francisco, ii well known Front-street merchant-one of the front orchestra'seat brigade, whose head was more clear tlmn level--waited around the stag® entrance to the Standard Theatre, after the performance, trying to conceal a handsome bouquet, under his ulster . For a long time he kept peering at the different specimens of Mme. Rente's sirens, as they, put up their umbrellas and trotted away iti the vain. After waiting patiently1 for ubout an hour, he approaohed an indi vidual with a red scarf and a slouched liat, wlio stood; smoking a cigar at the entrance, anil said.:, s 'VCan\your tell -me,, sir, if Miss^ phlorine hns' glooe houie> yet , ; ; , [ ; ;'^Oli, yes,' been pons/half an hour," I replied ;t1iei;slouch h«tfparty ''cheerfully. ^Tliose flowers for.:her;?Mli 'nriin:b | :' I " Well-er-um-ycs.7,) . («,,ir, N! 1 'I'll give'em to Her-see tier lateri'' . the obnging mon.i . ;'r...

i' i A IXta&amp;Meaer's Guide, £ fi; dilCHATlD AND FliUIT GARDEN. M ^:The praning of deciduious trees sb^id liqV I e/caV'ie'l .where a laiirge number have to be,attended to, softs to have the work finished in good time. Though -we advocate "late pruningrM"»'* ruler'it'~^:5wr,nP''; .advisable.to del*y it till the sup is in full 'motioiv, us when cut after reaching that st«.p*e t the; trees often bleed too lVeelv?'t&amp;lt; t! air de-ri merit.' It is therefore "Sdviaihie'To'lceefTlTltt' .^^pvkppll tin J{,and(,( so thai it ga^be^nished:? A^ 1 i*opor||,ime. - jW-heii, ^)\veyOT,i theroj are only a few tives to bo.attonded "to,; there $$$ to prune tfiem till the1' Be- ' g'iiniiiig'Vf.^ugust, or even later, in the cold districts.-1 The 'planting' of decjiduou*; .trfeels 'aii/^r;be'prttceeded.;\rith,-bu t evergreen* , should not " be;" shifted at present. ;. iiFi'e-y ^^^on^si^uia-horpfbe^ m&amp;de- fer^'girafting.. mi fso)lj .lux u iuanl! p .'« r_' a jiji' t lifer'' fruit "trees...